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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
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The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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